Racism

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• SOS Racisme Organizes New Paris Rally Against Police Brutality and Racism
  9 June 2020, by Bladi.net

  Through the voice of its president Dominique Sopo, SOS Racisme calls for a new rally against police brutality this Tuesday, June 9, in Paris.
  The SOS Racisme association wants to continue to denounce police brutality and, above all, all forms of racism; this despite the many demonstrations and rallies held in memory of Adama Traoré.
  Dominique Sopo calls for the organization of a rally this Tuesday, at 6 p.m. on the Place de la République. According to him, Emmanuel Macron and Édouard (…)

• Police Union Delegate Exposes Widespread Racism in French Law Enforcement
  9 June 2020, by Bladi.net

  A passive complicity attitude towards all racist acts, this is what Noam Anouar thinks of the police administration. According to the delegate of the police union "Vigi", there is a second group of law enforcement on Facebook with racist, anti-Semitic, sexist and homophobic remarks.
  The investigation by StreetPress on racist messages posted on Facebook and attributed to members of the security forces is analyzed by the delegate of the police union "Vigi". On France info, Noam Anouar (…)

• Police Officers of North African Descent Face Racist Slurs During Routine Call in France
  9 June 2020, by Bladi.net

  Romanian nationals were arrested in Drancy. They are said to have made racist remarks against police officers intervening in front of their house for a simple noise disturbance check.
  The two police officers from the Drancy (Seine-Saint-Denis) police station, a man and a woman, one of Maghrebi origin, were insulted as "fake cops" and beaten, reports Le Parisien. This event comes at a time when police violence and racism in the police are being denounced around the world. According to a (…)

• Yellow Vest Activist Launches Petition to Ban Controversial Pundit Éric Zemmour from Media
  11 June 2020, by Sylvanus

  As the debate on police violence and racism rages on, the Yellow Vest Priscillia Ludosky has launched a new petition against Éric Zemmour on the change.org platform. This petition has been addressed to the Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (CSA) and to Franck Riester, Minister of Culture.
  "Éric Zemmour, xenophobe, must be banned from the media!" This is how the new petition launched against the writer by the Yellow Vest Priscillia Ludosky can be summarized. She denounces the fact that (…)

• Study: Housing Discrimination in Belgium Declines Following Testing Measures
  13 June 2020, by Prince

  According to a study by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel carried out in the city of Ghent, and the results of which were published on Friday in the newspaper De Morgen, the implementation of situation testing against discrimination in housing would have positive effects.
  After experimenting with these tests in 2015 in Ghent, it had appeared that 26% of real estate agents discriminated against tenant candidates based on their origins. This percentage fell to 14% in 2019. Researchers (…)

• Nationwide Protests Planned Against Police Brutality and Racial Injustice in France
  13 June 2020, by Prince

  The largest demonstration will take place in the afternoon in Paris, at the call of the Adama Traoré committee, named after a young black man who died in July 2016 after his arrest by gendarmes in the Paris region. Movements are also scheduled for Sunday in Marseille, Lyon, Montpellier, Nantes, Saint-Nazaire and Strasbourg.
  The committee is calling for demonstrations in all cities in France "to demand truth and justice for Adama and all victims of the police or the gendarmerie". On June 2, (…)

• Spanish Teen’s Death Echoes George Floyd Case, Sparks Racism Debate
  13 June 2020, by Sylvanus

  While the anti-racism movements are not wavering in the United States and other countries, a case has resurfaced. It is that of Iliass Tahiri, a young Moroccan who died under the same circumstances as George Floyd, on July 1, 2019, in a juvenile center in Spain.
  It took the Spanish daily El País website to publish a video of rare violence for internet users to make the connection between the Iliass Tahiri case and that of George Floyd, an African-American who died of asphyxiation during a (…)

• France Faces Outcry Over Alleged Police Racism and Brutality Against Teens
  14 June 2020, by Sylvanus

  While anti-racism movements are multiplying following the death by asphyxiation of African-American George Floyd in the United States during a police arrest, four 14 to 15-year-old middle school students from Val-de-Marne were victims of "discrimination" and faced "racist and homophobic insults". Suspected of snatching, they were arrested, placed in "arbitrary detention", released and then exonerated.
  The four teenagers - one is black, two are of Maghrebi origin, the last is white - had (…)

• Police Officers Reveal Widespread Racism in French Law Enforcement
  15 June 2020, by Sylvanus

  At a time when the French are denouncing violent and racist arrests, French police officers are speaking out about racism in their profession. Testimonies.
  Franceinfo collected the testimony of four anonymous French police officers. "Racist remarks, it’s all the time. Every day. Quickly, I realized that it was a racist environment. During the confinement, we were carrying out checks on travel permits in vehicles. Often, my colleagues excused the white people, the young women, who did not (…)

• Acrobat Scales Building to Remove Far-Right ’White Lives Matter’ Banner in Paris Protest
  15 June 2020, by Sylvanus

  While thousands of protesters were protesting against racism and police violence on Saturday, June 13 in Paris, members of Génération Identitaire deployed a banner bearing the inscription "White Lives Matter". Acrobate94, a 28-year-old YouTuber, immediately scaled a building with his bare hands to remove this provocative banner.
  "I climbed up through the gutter. I landed on a balcony, walked a bit on it and then climbed up to the roof. There, I saw them, there were about ten of them, a (…)